ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND!

Theater Under the Stairs proudly presents Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, adapted and directed by Holly Erin McCarthy.
Alice – an intrepid, curious girl – follows a well-dressed rabbit down a magical rabbit hole and finds herself in Wonderland; where disappearing cats serve as tour guides, croquet is played with live flamingos, and the Queen will have you executed faster than you can say “Jabberwocky!”
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most beloved stories of all time.  Holly Erin McCarthy has taken Lewis Carroll’s epic fantasy and adapted it for the stage.  Complete with original music, lots of magic and surprises, and, of course, all of your favorite characters, Alice is this summer’s most exciting musical comedy adventure for the whole family!


Featuring:
Alyssa Brumfield
Chloe Brumfield
Hannah Carrita
Jessica Cappadona
Amelia Dintino
Seth Gable
Emma Jones
Celia Krefter-Wills
Erin McKenna
Amy McMahon
Ari Lew
Lisa Rudy

The show runs approx. 1 hour.All tickets are $10August 15-30Mondays and Tuesdays at 10am.
Fridays at 10 and 12:30


508-428-0669
ARTSONTHECAPE.ORG


at cotuit center for the arts
4404 Falmouth Road (route 28)
cotuit, ma

MEDEA, the story of a man too ambitious to be happy and a woman too powerful to be forgiving, is one of the oldest stories in the Western World, its first recorded iteration written almost two and a half millenia ago.  Holly Erin McCarthy stars as Medea, a sorceress so madly in love with the hapless hero Jason that she helps him murder monsters and monarchs alike all across Greece so that he might someday be a king.  When Jason leaves Medea for a young princess in order to position himself as the next king of Corinth, Medea’s shame and heartache drags the entire city into tragedy.  Christopher Compton’s adaptation of Euripides’ 2200 year old play incorporates six different translations, modern tricks and flourishes, and some of the most gifted actors on Cape Cod to tell the wrenching story of a woman with power enough to topple empires but not to tame an overly-ambitious heart.  Theater Under the Stairs is proud to produce this, its second production in the new Botello Black Box.

OPENS APRIL 7
RUNS APRIL 7-23
THURSDAY- SATURDAY 8PM
SUNDAY 2PM

BOTELLO BLACK BOX
COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS
508-428-0669

MEDEA opens April 7!

Production Photos!!

Interview between TUTS co-founders, Chris Compton and Holly Erin McCarthy

HOLLY: So, what do we talk about?

CHRIS: Our play, probably.

HOLLY: Right, well okay but also thank you so much to CCTFA for giving us the chance to use their brand new space...

CHRIS: To PREMIERE their brand new space...

HOLLY: With our production of NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre which will be, believe me...

CHRIS: A hoot.

HOLLY: A barnburner.

CHRIS: A Dyonisian orgy of tragedy, rage, and comedic irony.

HOLLY: Right, that too.  So, yes, Theater Under the Stairs is really about two things, I think.

CHRIS: Just two?

HOLLY: Well, primarily.  One is accessibility, we want everyone and anyone to be able to enjoy our plays, which means that Chris and I take zero pay...

CHRIS: And she means zero...

HOLLY: And do all our own leg work, so that we can afford to charge only 10 bucks for a ticket and still pay for the rights to a show and give our hardworking guest performers a hard-earned stipend.

CHRIS: The second thing is character...

HOLLY: Character?  Why if I had any character, I...

CHRIS: To me, the most exciting thing about theater is being able to watch an actor, in three dimensions, inhabit the body and mind of a truly complex and fascinating person...

HOLLY: And so we gravitate towards plays that offer an actor a lot to bite into when building a role, be it a hero play, like Euripides' MEDEA, our next planned production...

CHRIS: Or a character-driven drama like NO EXIT.

HOLLY: So NO EXIT is a play about these three people who have just died, and find out that hell is, well...

CHRIS: They're expecting red-hot pokers and devils sticking forks into their eyes or whatever but they find themselves, instead, in an ugly living room with these two other people with whom they have absolutely nothing in common and...

HOLLY:...And basically they just drive each other nuts.  It's an intelligent play and a funny play but the real joy comes in watching these characters completely unhinge...  Rob Anderson, for example...

CHRIS: We met Rob when Holly was in Side Man with him over at Cape Rep...

HOLLY: Plays this journalist named Joseph Garcin, and watching him in rehearsals go completely bonkers night after night has been...

CHRIS:...Terrifying...

HOLLY:...Delightful.  The show also stars Susan Winslow who plays this vicious woman named Inez Serrano who's really...

CHRIS: She steals every scene she speaks in.

HOLLY: And we have Stephen Coltin as a quite creepy employee of Hell.

CHRIS: And our very own Holly Erin McCarthy as Estelle Rigault, who appears at first to be simply a very charming...

HOLLY: If bratty...

CHRIS: Aristocratic type, but later is revealed to...

HOLLY: Have more than a few secrets.

CHRIS: As I said, we like complexity.  And shock and scandal.

HOLLY: Anyway please come see our extraordinarily inexpensive and thrilling production of NO EXIT.

CHRIS: We're just a couple of young pups with a love for telling stories, and we need folks like you to come on out and enjoy them...

HOLLY: Or we'll shrivel up like prunes.

CHRIS: Right.  Or raisins.

HOLLY: For example.

No Exit Poster!

All-Star "No Exit" Cast Announced!

Hello!
We are pleased to announce the cast list for our production of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit!
Valet: Stephen Coltin
Garcin: Rob Anderson
Inez: Susan Winslow
Estelle: Holly Erin McCarthy
Directed by Christopher Compton
Performance dates:
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays.
February 4 - 20